moving all an app's menus into menus.cs?

[TuringTest1]

the vs designer is ok for generating menus but the code gets quite bloaty. is there either a more compact way to generate menus and their click handlers, or alternatively some slick way of collecting them all in a separate "menus.cs" file? TIA ________________________________________ Gosh, it would be awful pleas'n, to reason out the reason, for things I can't explain. Then perhaps I'd deserve ya, and be even worthy of ya.. if I only had a brain!

[User 260964]

I solve this problem using #region directives:

#region Menus
private MenuItem mnuFile;
private MenuItem mnuFileNew;
private MenuItem mnuFileOpen;
private MenuItem mnuFileLine1; // A separator.
private MenuItem mnuFileSave;
private MenuItem mnuFileSaveAs;
private MenuItem mnuFileLine2; // Another separator.
private MenuItem mnuFileExit;
#endregion

#region Menu events
#region File
private void mnuFileNew_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
}

private void mnuFileOpen_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
}

private void mnuFileSave_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
}

private void mnuFileSaveAs_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
}

private void mnuFileExit_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
}
#endregion
#endregion

Since you use Visual Studio, this would hide the menu code, and add more structure to your source file. - Daniël Pelsmaeker

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[Heath Stewart]

You could just type everything manually. Using the designers isn't magic - they generate code. Instead of using the designer - just type it yourself. Write a class with your menus, instantiate it, and assign that as the menu for your application.

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